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Recent Reviews for Tom Carter
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Can a Poor White Boy Survive Hong Kong? (Short Story) - 9/2/2008 12:58:57 PM
Thank you for taking me back to Hong Kong. I spent a week there in Kowloon in 1966. I will in the United States Marines when I arrived from Chu Lei, Vietnam on Rest and Recuperation from combat. Crossed to the island and walked around one afternoon. I was twenty-one and drunk most of the time. As I recall, I visited a lot of Kowloon bars and met and mixed with endless girls. I went through seven hundred 1966 dollars in five days and nights. You can guess where I spent that money. Your visit sounded like Hong Kong went through a metamorphosis from the time I was there--not the same place except for the girls with a different set of attitudes that seem more like acid dripping and burning.
Sichuan - Portrait of a Tibetan Family, by Tom Carter (Short Story) - 6/1/2008 2:56:03 PM
Thank you for your story of Sichuan. My niece has been in China for over a month, and I am so proud of her going to other cultures and appreciating them. She was near the devastation and she told me of the aftershocks, and people sleeping in the streets, rather than in high buildings. She has written a journal and I look forward to learning her experiences and seeing through her eyes.
I took her and her brother to see the Dalai Lama and have tried to let them see the bigger picture of the world.
Many thanks
ellen
Is CHINA Safe for Foreigners? (Article) - 1/26/2009 6:39:30 AM
Although I've never lived in China for any extended period of time, I have visted China a dozen times in the last ten years and I've stayed for several weeks each time while traveling the length and width of the country. Tom Carter is right about China being safer than walking the streets of a city like Los Angeles in Southern California where I taught in a barrio high school and it wasn't safe in the classroom. For thirty years, I felt like I was working in a war zone where I watched drive by shootings from my classroom doorway. On the other hand, when in China, I feel safer than I do at home in California. And yes, I've heard that it isn't a good idea to spend too much time in certain areas of China like where drunks gather. Carter, of course, spending two years on the road taking pictures in every corner of China had no choice but to spend some time in some of those areas. I wonder if he got his rooms free in that hotel that wasn't following the Chinese government's rules. China may not have all the freedoms we have in America but it is safer so there is a price to pay for safety. Imagine if Carter had a run in with an American street gang in a Los Angeles barrio in the dead of night and the gangsters drunk. Would he have walked away?
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